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Moral Dgeneration and Alienated Modern Individuals : W.D. Howells's A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham
近代社会における道徳の衰退と疎外 : W.D. ハウエルズの A Modern Instance と The Rise of Silas Laphan
吉田, 明代
136268
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This paper tries to show that in A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells provides an extensive insight into the conditions of modern individuals who struggle in and against the social changes which are both the cause and effect of general moral decay. This paper proves that his insight extends beyond the limits that are often attributed to his works and perspective: his inability to overstep the bourgeois and genteel standards of virtue, and his innocent belief in the prevalence of morality and reason.//In A Modern Instance, Howells illustrates the circumstances in which individualism inevitably degenerates into egotism and society falls into anomie. The main characters of the novel are led to assume that they are naturally free from any social obligation and to be engrossed in the pursuit of their own success and happiness. The Rise of Silas Lapham, on the other hand, depicts a moral struggle of an individual who eventually realizes his obligation to the society at large, no matter how it contradicts the interests of his own and even of the group of people he is personally responsible for, despite the fact that his “rise” does not elevate the society’s moral standards in general.//What Howells demonstrates is how problematic it is for modern individuals to make moral decisions and to be saved from the state of alienation.
departmental bulletin paper
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
2008-03
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アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies
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126
AA11562201
13462989
https://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/record/37197/files/pas8_113-126.pdf
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